- Watermarking a PDF with JavaScript - This tutorial explains how to watermark (over- or under- laying text and/or images onto a page).
- Acrobat X Automation Scripting Changes - This video discusses how changes in the Acrobat X User Interface affect automation scripting.
- How to debug your script - A tutorial that explains how to debug your JavaScript in Acrobat.
- Using Acrobat JavaScript with Forms - Learn where to enter scripts, how to perform common tasks, the do's and dont's of JavaScript, and scripting that will work in Adobe Reader.
- Basic Acroforms Toolset – Create Field Validations and Date Pickers Without Writing Code - Jim Healy, founder of FormRouter Inc., has provided a video and free toolset to help you build better forms using Acrobat 7, 8 or 9.
- How to save a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript - Being able to save a file to disk is a critical activity for Acrobat workflow automation, and fortunately, there are a couple ways to do this from a script.
- Conditional Execution - One of the most important features of any programming language--including JavaScript--is the ability to make decisions, called Conditional Execution.
- Scripting for Adobe Reader - Thom Parker explores the various restrictions of Adobe Reader scripting, and methods for testing and debugging code directly in the Reader environment.
- How to Make a Toggle Button - Thom Parker explains that regardless of the forms technology, AcroForms or LiveCycle, the technique for creating a Toggle Button is identical. Only the technology-specific details are different.
- Scripting PDF: Inside the Acrobat JavaScript SDK - In this presentation from MAX 2009, Thom Parker, president of WindJack Solutions, talks about scripting in Acrobat and PDF.
- Why doesn’t my script work? - That’s a very good question, and one commonly asked in various user forums. Usually this statement is followed by 'I copied the code exactly,' or 'I changed something and then it broke.' Unfortunately, this is a fact of scripting. Sometimes things just don’t work. So what do you do? When scripts break, it’s time to step back and figure out what’s wrong.
- Custom document search using JavaScript - As Thom Parker explains, the search engine in Acrobat is almost completely controllable from Acrobat JavaScript, so you can build advanced search features into your own documents or document sets.
- Importing and exporting PDF file attachments with Acrobat JavaScript - A PDF file has the ability to encapsulate other file types, such as a '.zip' file. The user can quite literally drag and drop files in and out of a PDF. This ability to attach files is the basis for several other features in Acrobat, most notably "Packages" in Acrobat 8, "Portfolios" in Acrobat 9 and "Data Collection" files.
- Text matching with regular expressions - Thom Parker says that practically every computer language in use today provides support for using regular expressions, and he provides an introduction to using them in Acrobat JavaScript.
- Entering scripts into a Link Action - Thom Parker says the link object is intended to provide a kind of hyperlink capability for Acrobat, and can also be used to run a JavaScript.
JavaScript Tutorials
Mar 21, 2012 11:18 AM